Cheap sensors, fast computing, and new technologies have led to new user-friendly manufacturing automation that increases productivity.
Despite recent acknowledgement of the importance of sub-lethal behavioral biotests, their implementation is profoundly limited by the lack of appropriate and user-friendly laboratory automation.
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"I would really like to see automation become user-friendly enough that it could permeate the biological lab," says Seed. "But to really see this become effective, you'll need to have integrated solutions for commonly performed activities". Systems manufacturers also recognize this demand for stand-alone instruments that are flexible, yet simple enough to not require a dedicated technician.
Systems must accommodate a relevant number of samples to allow for sufficient statistical power in the data analysis and provide a high level of automation with a user-friendly and robust interface.
It combines many interactive visualizations with a solid foundation of statistical methods, a data model supporting meta information, classification and data-mining methods and sophisticated filtering and automation approaches into a user-friendly application.
Many companies have designed home-automation devices to be user-friendly.
In the authors' experience the trend is clear in bioinformatics — workflow tools are getting increasingly more powerful, user-friendly, and hence more frequently used and appreciated for automation and creation of research pipelines.
The increasing availability of rapid prototyping technology makes it possible to quickly engineer alternatives to conventional automation infrastructure that are low-cost and user-friendly.
An automation module with a high-resolution USB camera, user-friendly fluidic interconnects and miniaturized 3D-printed interface was developed.
Currently, marketing automation software or web-based interfaces are very user-friendly and designed specifically to streamline and simplify the process.
